Photo, illustrations, and information on Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, or Henry Schoolcraft (1793-1864), an early American ethnologist and pioneer Missouri journalist and mining expert. Native of New York moving...

The Missouri state motto is credited to Missouri federal representative Willard Vandiver, from a speech made at a banquet in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1903. Other possible places and times of origin...

Contents of file includes a short history of the Kansas City Smelting and Refining Company and August Meyer's role with it and the United Zinc and Chemical Company with printouts from city directories....

Photos, illustrations, maps, and information on the underground caves used in the Kansas City area for storage, industrial parks, and office space, often as former limestone mines, etc. Many of the locations...